Kandavalli Pradeep Kumar
Quality Engineering Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
A practicing Test/Quality Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience managing and scaling multidiscipline QA teams . Efficient quality professional bringing proven success in driving continuous improvement initiatives and Proactive Testing, Shift Left Testing, Negative testing, Early Time to Market, CI/CD initiatives . Ability to handle projects which understands ETL requirements and Maps it to Testing strategy. Conduct quality assessments and identify testing opportunities for continuous improvement to deliver end-to-end testing solutions with tangible outcomes.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
Work History
Quality Engineering Manager
OPTUM-UnitedHealth Group
12.2011 - Current
- End-to-end delivery management of the Testing/Quality practices and driving the continuous improvements on testing strategy.
- Building and managing the SDET teams across multiple Scrum teams in LOB, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, guiding and mentoring team members.
- Development of ATDD Test Automation Frameworks (Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)) for ETL Testing using Core Java and Cucumber
- Planning and Developing Test Libraries and Test Automation Frameworks in Java.
- Enhancing and designing Frameworks for ETL Automation using ATDD, Java, Cucumber, GIT, Maven,Azure DevOps and CI/CD.
- DWH – Data Warehousing, ETL Testing, Database (DB) Testing, Business Intelligence (BI) Testing, Product Testing and Manual Testing.
- Deep dive understanding of ETL requirements and Mapping it to Testing strategy.
- Data Migration Testing - from DB2 On-Premise to MS SQL Server Azure Cloud.
- Continued evaluation of test cases/scenarios for inclusion in Shift-Left Testing , Regression Testing , test coverage and Test automation of newly implemented functionality and development of tools to enable QA efficiencies.
- Proactive Testing, Negative testing, Early Time to Market, CI/CD initiatives.
- Continuous Testing: Integration of testing into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to ensure that testing is an integral part of the software delivery process. This helps in achieving faster and more reliable releases.
- Effective Test Planning and Developing Test Strategies/Test Approaches . Implementing and Managing Test Automation Scripts to ensure that products meets the required specifications for Quality.
- Coordinates Product testing life Cycle . Proven track record in designing, implementing, executing and supervising an E2E - end-to-end testing approach.
- Implement organization-wide governance including Testing Standard, Quality/Test Metrics, Patch Testing Approach, Testing of Release Management, Software testing,Functional testing, System testing,Integration testing, Test automation using Java and Selenium, Performance.Testing , etc.
- Working with development, build and test integration tooling including Git.
- Managing/Maintaining the Test Environment for Agile Testing and Continuous Integration/Continuous Testing.
- Back up Scrum Master: Organizing Sprint planning meetings , which includes reviewing the Product Backlog and collaborating with the Product Owner and the Core Team to identify user stories to be included in the next Sprint.
- Identifying gaps in testing activities and developing solutions.
Associate Quality Engineering Manager
OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
03.2019 - 03.2023
- Responsible for Defining QA Strategy, Approach and Execution in development projects.
- Developed comprehensive test plans and workforce breakdown structures for complete systems.
- Evaluated project requirements to identify and mitigate risks.
- Responsible for Leading the projects and directing the QA teams.
- Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance.
- Creation of ATDD Automation Framework with Java.
- Implementation of ETL/BI/DHW-DataWarehousing Testing/ Test Automation.
- Extensive Testing experience in delivering large and complex transformation testing engagements
- ETL Analytics and Data Reporting Automation.
- In-Sprint Automation and Azure DevOps/CI-CD adoption .
- T est Management/Test Coordination in all phases, types and levels of testing.
- Coordinating the entire Test life cycle from Test design till Test reporting and supporting User acceptance testing (UAT).
Test Lead
OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
09.2015 - 03.2019
- Leading the Complete BI/DWH/ETL QA Project Delivery for both Onshore and Offshore.
- Mentoring/Managing the QA team members across geographies .
- Successfully able to Offshore the delivery ownership of BI/DWH/EDW/ETL QA Projects from Brazil to India for AMIL client.
- Demand Vs Capacity Planning and Resource Project Planning.
- Involvement in Project Planning, Execution, Documenting and Reporting .
- Responsible for drafting Weekly Reports, Daily Reports, Metrics/KPIs, Test summary reports and coordinate with the senior management.
- Effective usage of the resources across the project and assigning the tasks and leading the team towards success.
- Knowledge Transition, Understanding the Applications and creating documentation in English ( Knowledge Management ).
- Generating leads by providing estimations of the projects and ensuring set targets are achieved.
- Accountable for carrying out detailed analysis and issue clarification with both Development and Client teams.
- Mentoring and Coordinating with the team and resolving key bottleneck issues.
- Finding the bugs & logging the defects and reporting the data accordingly.
Sr. IT Quality Analyst
OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
12.2011 - 03.2014
- Responsible for Defining QA Strategy, Approach and Execution.
- Responsible for Leading the projects and directing the QA teams for efficient Test execution.
- Provide leadership and technical expertise with ETL Testing .
- Implementation of ETL/BI/DHW-DataWarehousing Testing/ Test Strategies
- ETL Analytics and Data Reporting Testing .
- Demand Vs Capacity Planning and Resource Project Planning.
- Responsible for effective Quality assurance,
Defect tracking and Test documentation.
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
05.2008 - 12.2011
- Leading the Complete BI/DWH/ETL QA Project Delivery
- Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts , and use cases to support testing objectives.
- Worked in Mortgage Domain as a T est Module Lead and responsible for effective usage of the resources across the project and assigning the work and leading the team.
- Coordinated with the BAs/SAs for the Functional and Technical Requirements Walkthrough.
- Accountable for carrying out detailed analysis and issue clarification with both Development and BA Teams.
- Estimations of the projects and ensuring set targets are achieved.
- Responsible for drafting Weekly Reports, Daily Reports, Metrics/KPIs, Test summary reports and coordinate with the senior management.
- Responsible for mentoring and providing knowledge transfer to new team members.
- Mentoring and coordinating with the team and resolving key bottleneck issues.
- Test Execution and Finding and logging the defects and reporting the data accordingly.
- Researched new developments in testing methods and equipment and made recommendations to improve testing procedures.
- Developed comprehensive test plans and workforce breakdown structures for complete systems.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (ECE - Electronics And Communications) -
ANITS - Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology And Sciences - Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
Skills
ETL/Database Testing
ETL – Test Automation
Power BI, Microstrategy, SSRS Testing
SQL
Rest Assured/API testing
CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
Core Java
ATDD, BDD, Cucumber
Selenium
TestNG
White Box/Grey Box Testing
Agile/Scrum
Azure Cloud
Test Management Tools: Rally, ALM and QC
Performance Testing
DB2 Sailfish, SQL Server and Oracle PL/SQL
Accomplishments
- Received the ALL STAR award from the CEO of UnitedHealth Group in 2016
- Engineering Talent Transformation Award and SDET Certification from UnitedHealth Group/OPTUM
- Implemented multiple Bright Ideas YOY for Cost Avoidance .
- Leaders Involving me in starting new ETL projects from Scratch to start and stabilize the projects.
- Successfully able to Offshore the delivery ownership of BI/DWH/EDW/ETL QA Projects from Brazil to India for AMIL client
- 2 times onshore travel to Brazil, South America
- Learnt and applied Portuguese Language within the Brazilian Projects and in Brazil, South America
- Certified in various External Certifications.
- Received numerous Awards throughout the career
- Exceeded Expectations and Outstanding Expectations Performance Ratings
External Certifications
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – AZ 900 - (Certificate ID I008-1640)
- Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals – DP 900 - (Certificate ID I217-4170)
- SAFe 4 Agilist –Scaled Agile, Inc (Certificate ID 97288946-4479)
- Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1)
- AHM 250 – American Health Care Domain Certification
- ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundational Level (Certificate ID 0050522)
- DevOps Professional – DevOps Union (Certificate ID 101295)
Timeline
Associate Quality Engineering Manager
OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
03.2019 - 03.2023
Test Lead
OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
09.2015 - 03.2019
Quality Engineering Manager
OPTUM-UnitedHealth Group
12.2011 - Current
Sr. IT Quality Analyst
OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
12.2011 - 03.2014
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
05.2008 - 12.2011
Bachelor of Engineering (ECE - Electronics And Communications) -
ANITS - Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology And Sciences - Andhra University, Visakhapatnam